Chicago's mayor takes an apartment in a crime-plagued slum

On a tour of Cabrini-Green, a violence-torn public housing project on
Chicago's Near North Side, Mayor Jane Byrne noticed a 16-year-old girl
sitting in a police cruiser. The mayor asked what the youngster was
doing there. She had just been raped, was the answer. The mayor
returned home and a few hours later announced that she and her husband
Jay McMullen would move into a two-bedroom apartment at Cabrini-Green.
Said Byrne: "I asked myself what the difference was between this and other
neighborhoods. In most,...